Writing for an
Online Community
Writing for an
Online Community
My Career
Okay, so this is what I want to do, but won't make much, if any, money at. When I'm not doing schoolwork I'm working with and writing about my four year old son Jeffrey who is autistic. So instead of focusing on what I will do for money once I graduate, or what I did before, I will focus on what I want to do - which is primarily writing for the - well, I can't think of a better way to say it than - for the autism community.
The idea of Rhetoric is based in the idea of exigence. It is an event that demands words - a rhetorical situation. For me that rhetorical situation is my son. He demands words but needs pictures. Thinking about his mind is what lead me to the idea of hypervisual thinking. I will use this widesite to display my words and my pictures to come up with a solution. I'm hoping other parents catch on and move from literacy to electracy - focus on their children's strengths and learn to bridge that gap with pictures.
Because my subject base and my audience is very specific, it lends itself to an online network. The writing I have done has been for online websites and magazines that focus specifically on special needs children. Without the internet the type of networking that occurs within communities, and the communities themselves would not necessarily exist (at least not to the degree that they do with the internet). So, for lack of a better choice I will focus on two different topics: 1 - Internet Invention - the history of how we got to where we are technologically up until this point, and 2 - Writing online - how writing for online magazines and websites (hypertextual writing) etc...differs from print publishing both in authorial style and readership.
The following three links are recent articles I have written about autism: